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A terse but excellent article on IEEE's USA Today's Engineer site today focuses on the often forgotten--or at least ignored--risk of offshoring. National security. The full article is at: http://www.todaysengineer.org/2009/Nov/backscatter.asp . The most salient quote is: "One area the [National...
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Yes, this is an HP blog, and so you forgive me when occasionally (and inevitably) I take an HP line on an announcement, event or trend. Out of interest of serving the broader anti-counterfeiting/anti-fraud/anti-tamper/customer safety community, I point you to our partner, GS1's, announcement on the...
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ISACA put out a paper on 29th Oct, 2009, titled " Cloud Computing: Business Benefits with Security, Governance and Assurance Perspectives " While somewhat short, this paper is a must read for senior IT and business folks, as it shows that cloud computing still fundamentally requires work in...
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Many of you are aware that 2D barcodes--which look like waffles--are becoming ubiquitous for location-based services, mobile commerce, and increasingly point-of-sale and track and trace applications. Did you know that there are many more you cannot see? They're covert 2D barcodes. And the master...
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Remember the 24 August announcement on the HP/GS1 food recall service? If not, please enjoy as if new the following article: http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/securityprinting/archive/2009/08/25/big-news-hp-develops-cloud-service-with-gs1-canada-to-enhance-product-recall-process.aspx This announcement...
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Filed under: Counterfeiting, anti-counterfeiting, security, safety, HP, cloud computing, EFPIA, 2D Barcodes, IT Solutions, HP Cloud Computing, HP Manufacturing Cloud Computing Platform, SAP
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Hi, all The next few blogs will point you to information on the recent announcement of the EFPIA 2D labelling scheme. The EFPIA is the European Federation of Pharmaceutical and Industries Association. In-Pharma's article on this announcement is: http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/Packaging/2D-barcodes...
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10-26-2009
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Filed under: Counterfeiting, security, Supply Chain, packaging, serialization, safety, HP, EFPIA, Siemens, 2D Barcodes, IT Solutions, Sweden
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HP's CEO, Mark Hurd, took the stage today as a keynote speaker at Gartner's Symposium . Out of the gate we see the headlines such as " HP's Hurd dings cloud computing, IBM " (CNET) and " HP's Hurd: Cloud Computing Has its Limits " (Seeking Alpha). Leaving aside the...
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Growing up, I lived in Eastern Kentucky "for a spell". Rural Rowan (pronounced like "round" without the "d') County, in fact, where the valley I lived in was called "Quail Hollow". As in, a snake bit me and I had to "holler". I lived right next to a "crick"...
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My previous post was a link to the excellent In-Pharma Technologist blog edited by Nick Taylor. Nick solicited a posting from me back in April, but I could not find it on In-Pharma, so given a 1/2 year grace period, I think its time to post here: Variable Data Printing and Improved Pharma Product Protection...
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10-14-2009
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Filed under: Counterfeiting, security printing, security, VDP, Track and Trace, authentication, SVDP, mass serialization, image forensics, steganography, counterfeit
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The time has come to update the topic (and focus) of this blog. In the last few years my R&D work and research at HP Labs has been involving a variety of aspects, including security, identity management and privacy. Most of my posts have actually been reflecting this - hence my decision to update...
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With all of the activities that have been going on during the last few weeks, I forgot to mention a major release. Let me rectify that ommision today. HP has released the latest update to HP-UX - HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5 [http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/os/hpux11i-v3-update5-overview.html], also...
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A couple months ago I was engaged in a podcast hosted by Dana Gardner with BriefingsDirect . Alongside Tim Van Ash and David Spinks, also from HP, we discussed cloud security challenges for successful enterprise adoption. The podcast is up, and you can listen here , or you can view the full transcript...
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If there is no rest for the wicked, then I have been very evil these past two weeks indeed. But, I hope some of the findings are wickedly cool. This post is for the paper on new findings in security printing and imaging, and my co-authors are that talented trio of Guy Adams, Jason Aronoff and Margaret...
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Printing and scanning change what you intended to print. This matters in variable data security printing, since there is information encoded there. My friend and colleague Marie Vans explores this issue in another NIP25 paper posted here: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2009/HPL-2009-318.html The approach...
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Thanks to HP Distinguished Technologist (his research is distinguished, but actually he's pretty young!) Joe Pato for inviting me to the program committee for IEEE BIdS this year. In addition to reading some excellent papers, mine was accepted. I presented it in Tampa yesterday, and got to stand...